Life — May 28, 1908 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Too Previous Alice ERDAY Alice gazed out of her window | Ting. BBY tot exiced the roadway with sunlight ablaze: “spond. fpr Ut of Ibe skies was as bright as ma Gay As certain fp dele id: “Spring is here with ber wonderful days, So bless me, Vl dress me, nds me pcatune Vefitting the advent of spring: 1 will don, He Tl put oa od deal [i ys pect-a-t-0 waist, and my furs I will fling.” g on fat This she did, for, the truth must be told, aid the J, hard re and It visit of his | was! ti fair Alice is down with a cold. Yourday Alice arose bright and early {ol eticed the sunbeams that danced all about; te links’ merry chatter her heart made to patter; Seid: “Tl look swell when to-day I go out, Hooray! Now here goes For my openwork hose. ysesfords of tan without rubbers Tl wear. Though mother may scoff, My heavies I'l dof flo for a stroll while the weather is fair.” tis she did—and of course all the truth must be said, Today ber blue eyes are most wofully red. Today Alice speaks with a thick, foggy accent, Sedonty her voice, which was clear as a bell; les and sputters, each word that she utters Proclims the sad fate that to Alice befell I'b got a bad gold, V'b a sight to beh my head is stuffed ub, I cab’t talk; V’b bot sure the way I got it, T say, thik that I caught it while oubt for a walk.” she says, bat her waist and her openwork hose Have gone back on the shelf till the Mayblosom blows. Detroit Free Press. Se aru! Reflections of a Cynical Dinner Guest A bees first man who invited somebody to dine with must surely have been terribly bored in his ha ! Agreed! But what about the first person who | xcepted an invitation? The idea of people assembling in order to absorb fod is certainly not a natural idea ; the lower animals sever invite each other to dinner—on the contrary! Where in the world do all the distinguished- koking butlers come from? Remember how few | people there are among all those you are acquainted nih who possess the attributes necessary in a suc- | cesful serving-man. You have, all the time during which the soup is cathe table, to rack your brains for something to gy to your neighbor. Hf, by the middle of the fish, you have found mothing 10 say, you must reconcile yourself to the se that you have already been written down adull blockhead. The last novel or the last play is your safety buoy, s sometimes happens, you have the mis- 4 next to a lady who has “no time to “never gocs to the theatre.” ven in such a case that there has recently P been a nice little catastrophe of sorts which will alow you to remark that ‘It is terrible,” in order! that your neighbor may retort, “Yes, truly awful!” However noisy the general conversation may be, itissure to come to a dead stop at the precise moment when you decide to take advantage of the babel of | tongues to say something very confidential to your neighbor! 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